Although the plot was all too familiar, The take on the old plot was masterful.The puppets were incredible and the voices really matched each character nicely.Even though the puppets showed no animatronic expressions, the emotions were clearly transferable.It was a sweet movie with well thought out dynamics and great set ingenuity.though it is slow at first, it is worth watching through. There were plenty of action sequences, but primarily heartfelt moments in the lives of the puppets.This would be a great classroom watch or a soothing family movie night

The whole concept of strings interested me from the start, I'll admit i have a strange fascination with puppets anyway from somewhere unknown, i think probably Fraggle rock and that sort of thing which was re-established when i saw 'being john Malkovich' with the beautifully worked string puppets.but anyway the whole concept of the strings being part of the puppet i found really enthralling, like they weren't quite in control of their own movements as we feel we aren't. the mystical scenes of the sky with strings in looked awesome.the opening scene really captures your attention and you feel so much empathy towards the king that you forget he is a piece of wood and treat him as human from the start.i was really intrigued with the explanations of birth and death and think they really added to make the universe seem believable.on the whole the story was kind of predictable but in a classical fantasy way really worked in the new context. the design of all the surroundings was breathtaking, i think this would be great for kids also, despite the lack of happiness within the story

I hadn't heard anything about this (Danish!) movie until a friend brought over a DVD he'd ordered from Thailand, of all places! (Available from www.ethaicd.com.) Four of us watched it and agreed that it was interesting, unique and original, but also rather dull. The story is a stereotypical (but very decent) fantasy fairy-tale, with the very interesting added element of the "stringed puppet reality". It worked very well, with a quite serious and emotional story a bit reminiscent of Gormenghast - all immensely well produced. But it wasn't engaging enough to maintain that much enthusiasm in the viewer. It was a bit too dark to be for children, and somewhat too, I dunno, uninvolving to be for grown-ups. I appreciate it as an honest, very competently produced fantasy movie with a detailed and good-looking but also quite crude and limited universe.I do think it would be more engaging on the big screen than on a TV screen, because I was slightly bored through much of it. Granted, I was a bit tired when we watched it, and this is not a movie one should watch while tired. But it was a very interesting experience.7 out of 10.

if the roles were performed by real actors; it can be said that this one is a normal/ordinary film but because the characters are puppets (but this is an animation) this film/cinema became an important one. on the other hand this is still a different one among the others because it is very difficult to find a one(film/cinema) in which the star/starting actor challenges with his past and thought that his father was in the wrong side.i think the most important scene was at the beginning. between the clouds you see countless "strings". and Zita's sentence was an interesting one explaining destiny/faith :where you end i start and where i end you start.